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From: "James Green" <james@stealthnet.co.uk>
To: "Rod Person" <roddierod@yahoo.com>
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Subject: RE: Savage 4 in XFree86 4.x.x
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 10:18:12 -0000
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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:20:35 -0000
> "James Green" <james@stealthnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I have a Savage 4 S3 video card 86c395/396/397, and cannot for the
> > > life of me get this thing set up in the new XFree86 4.x.x
> >
> > Snap. We have a local dev box running 4.5 with an on-board Savage4 gfx
> > chipset. XFree86-4 in ports does it's -configure thing fine, then we
> > install Xwrapper from ports and update the symlink, but then we run
> > startx as a normal user and bang, the whole machine hangs. Can't ssh in
> > or anything.
> >
> > http://64.94.46.26/XF86Config is the config file we've got.
>
> Does it work as root? I assume it does. I never had success get Xfree86-4
> to work with a user account via startx. I'm using xdm to boot directly
> into X, that has worked.
>
> from what I read in your config file, everything seems ok.

The whole machine hangs when startx is run by root. I can't even ssh in
remotely. Have to reboot using the button on the case.

jg


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